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45 Bodies Found at New Orleans Hospital

Times-Picayune

Despite horrendous, desperate conditions, hospital staff struggled to afford the dead any shred of dignity available, moving at least a dozen into a chapel and covering each with a blanket or placing them in body bags.

“Everything was done to protect the remains,” Hackney said, adding that security workers remained at the hospital until […]

“Dodged the Bullet?”

(Insert quotes from various top Federal officials here)

Here are the headlines of major newspapers across the U.S. for Tuesday, August 30th 2005, the day in question:

Blanco Announced Broken Levees Within Minutes

Look at Bush’s quote below from today (the infamous “Headlines-said-NO-dodged-bullet” talking points) and consider this fact as reported in the Wall Street Journal today:

Yet some government officials certainly appeared aware of a breach and said so on network television. At 7:33 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, Gov. Kathleen B. Blanco said on NBC, “I […]

Bush Uses “Dodged a Bullet” Lie

What I was referring to is this: When that storm came by, a lot of people said we dodged a bullet. When that storm came through at first, people said, Whew. There was a sense of relaxation. And that’s what I was referring to.

And I myself thought we had dodged a bullet. You know […]

No Bush Involvement Until Friday Day 5 of Disaster

This timeline-based article in the Washington Post is by far the best journalistic piece on the story of what happened in the disaster so far. It misses a few things but it also adds a great numbe of details never printed anywhere else. It’s absolutely essential reading. Just a few examples:

FEMA blocked Amtrak repeatedly […]

HOW THE US LOST TORA BORA

New York Times Magazine article, this is a must read especially the first page:

Indeed, by December 2001, when the final battle of Tora Bora took place, the cave complex had been so refined that it was said to have its own ventilation system and a power system created by a series of hydroelectric generators; […]

Cheney Calls Katrina an ‘Exercise’ as Austinites shout ‘Scumbag!’

Interesting story– someone on the dailykos blog reports that one woman, a survivor of Katrina, told him she did not want to do a “photo op” with him.

NPR: BUSH HELD NEW ORLEANS HOSTAGE

Just as claimed here on these pages, NPR now confirms that on the Friday that Bush first visited the Katrina disaster zone, he tried to force local officials to make an unprecedented and unnecessary total capitulation to his control; the real purpose was to create documents that he could use to shift the blame onto […]

Debit Card Plan Dead

Associated Press– thanks for nothing, liars.

Brown “Relieved” of Hurricane Duty

“I’m going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night’s sleep. And then I’m going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims,” Brown said. “This story’s not […]